Fastening.



F. C. POLING..

FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20. I917 Patented June 26, 1917.

provide an improved construction for a pivprises a hasp or hook 13 earnrt.

FRED C. POLIN G, 03 MENLO, IOWA, ASSIG-NOR T0 GOODE ANTLSKID CHAIN 1TUBING COMPANY, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, A CORPORATION 0F ARIZONA.

FASTENING.

Patented June Std, 11%911'3.

Application filed February 20, 1917. Serial Ito. 149,818.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED C. PoLINo, citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and resident of Menlo, Guthrie county, Iowa, have invented anew and useful Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for fasteningtogether ends, or an. end and the bight, of a chain.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means forconnecting in endless form the side chains ordinarily employed inanti-skidding devices on automobile tires. r

A further object of this invention is to on the opposite end portion ofthe hasp and from the longitudinal point of the and at right angles tothe. longitudinal plane of the body. he hasp 13 is adapted to be mountedby pivotal engagement of the eye 14 with one end portion of a link 16 ofthe end portion 10 of the chain and said hasp is adapted to oompassingone one side ofthe A closed loop 17 is mounted transversely of andloosely on and wholly embraces a link 18 of the portion 10 of the chainadjacent to and preferably interengaging with the link 16.. The loo 17may be moved longitudinally of the link 18 to any desired degree andlies wholly outslde of and ,free from said link. The hasp 13 is adaptedto be-extended through a link 20 of the portion 11 of the chain andreceives and pivotally connects with one end portion of said link, saidend portion of the link being received and lying between one end of thebody of the hasp and the end portion of the link 16 on which the hasp ispivoted. After the hasp 13 has been passed through the link 20 it isadapted to be closed upon the link 16 and compass the length thereof sothat the cl hook 15 extends within hundred eighty degrees on trend ofthe chain.

oted hasp adapted for bile wheels.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims andillustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a sideelevation showing portions of a chain and my improved fastening appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the indicated line 2-2 of Fig. 1.Fig. 3-is a side elevation of a hasp employed in the device.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designatesgenerally one end portion and 11 the opposite end portion of a sidechain adapted to be employed in an anti-skidding device for automobiletires, and the numeral 12 designates generally a supplemental endportion or extension on the portion 11 of the chain adapted to beemployed as a stay chain or tie chain, these features being shown anddescribed in my application for patent filed February 13, 1917, SerialNumber 148,305, to which reference herein is made.

The chain may be of varying lengths and may .be variously andselectively used on tires of difierent circumference and on accountthereof provision should be made for a fastening device susceptible ofvariable adjustment and selective use. Such device adapted to be pivotedon a link is shown and described herein and comchain, said hookextending across the plane relatively straight of the eye in onedirection and across the plane of the body of the hasp in the otherdirection and being adapted to enter an adjacent link of said chain,together with a and loop fastening especially use on side chains forautomothe link 18. Therepoint of the hook 15 and is received Within saidhook. The point of the hook 15 is of such length that the loop 17 maynot by agitation, violent motion or otherwise accidentally becomedetached from the hasp or hook. The link 20'may be selected by theoperator or user at any point in the bight of the chain, dependent uponthe length of the chain and the circumference of the tire or otherembracing compass with which it is used.

claim as my invention- 1. A fastening device for chains, ing a haspformed with a hook at and also havingan eye at the other end comprismits dy portion and having an eye 14 at and offset from the longitudinalplane of one. end portion. A hook 15 is formed osed portion of theuponthe loop 17 1s adjusted longitudinally plane thereoflnto the planeoccupied by the v one end of said chain, the hook being adapted to enteran loop slidingly mounted on and wholly embracing said adjacent link andadapted to embrace said hook.

2. A fastenin comprising a hasp formed body into the plane of'the eye,said hasp being adapted to bepivoted on a link of a adjacent link of thechain a loop being mounted loosely on said ad acent link and adaptedwholly to embrace saidhook, said hasp being adjacent link in embracingrelation with its end portion adjacent to said eye, the latter linkoverlapping the hasp-carrying link.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa; this seventeenth day of February,1917.

FRED C. POLING.

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